skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marketing is mostly about deception and half-truths, and promoting a product effectively means maximizing the positives and minimizing/omitting the negatives.

It's extremely telling that you consider this to be an accurate description of marketing.
Not sure how legal this is in most places. I think colored lighting on the rodas is generally banned in most states.
mods - can we change the url to http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/165918/way-in... ?
Seems unfair for Stallman to criticize the fact that they stopped funding ALEC after many people asked them too. It's kind of like taking hostages, having all your demands met, and then killing all the hostages anyway. Why will Amazon change if we criticize them for doing something we asked them to do?
The Linux Alarm Clock (xcalib + xset + slock + mplayer + cron)
> Most of these are problems with any large company, not Amazon per se.

Agreed! We won't get Amazon or any of these large corporations to change by boycotting their services (w/ no success). Instead we need to push for tech savy people to make it high up in Washington and European Union so that they protect customer interests instead of granting corporations all the power.
What is Amazon's current stance on ebook DRM? Did they abandon it yet?
> When I buy something, I like to know it's mine, rather than just 'in my possession with permission to use'.

What license do you use for software that you write?
Ahh, I think I may have originally caught you before an edit (or just misread). There is probably more money to be made teaching eg. email marketing for someone in patio11's position, but that doesn't extrapolate well. For young developers like myself, I think it would be foolish to target other developers when there are so many valuable business problems that software can solve. (IOW I was contesting the idea that there is generally more money to be made selling shovels, but I do not contest the idea that patio11 or perhaps bdunn might be able to make more money selling shovels at this point.)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hypocrisy

Basically, it's ok for him to charge for his right of image, it's ok for the GPL to place limits on IP, but it's not ok for others to charge for other rights like IP or limit the ways their IP can be used
(Right of image is not IP, it's a Personality right, still - and I agree with the GPL)
It is not very easy because it is an unusual request.

But I still wonder if this is easier than ls -l | sed -e :a -e 's/\(.*[0-9]\)\([0-9]\{3\}\)/\1,\2/;ta' ??

The investigations would be interesting it they were more complete, i.e. if the actual result was a change in the locale which could be appliable to other tools printing numbers besides ls (in the author TODO).

I mean, will it work with bc?

At the moment it's not better than an shell script alias giving the output to sed, but it is more complex - you have to recompile a binary for every OS you use.
The forum where the question is asked is actually a subforum on a video game site. But I still find it provides some kind of insight on the thinking of many business type people, that completely fail to comprehend anything about technology.

And that think that ideas are valuable, and that execution just goes to the lowest bidder...
Yes, it is front-page worthy, because the details give us insight into how one might make any sort of change to a codebase like this. "If you want to be a hacker, these are specific steps I took to hack something up." In a domain that most of us are not very familiar with!
"If I challenge you it's for discussion... you've learned in a short period of time and the ability to take advantage of people's generally trusting nature. Nothing wrong with that."

Larry - reading this along with your other snips at patio and bdunn, I feel compelled to point out that you're coming off as slightly crazy.

No offense. If that was challenging it was for the sake of discussion.
that doesn't really make sense, does it?

being a good programmer includes not creating useless abstractions, so what you're actually saying is "when i last worked with poor programmers they weren't very good". and, in response to that: well, duh.
Yeah that's really, really, suspiciously cheap if it were to actually work at any sort of scale.
The change should come from us by way of better governance.

If this more an issue of the "lazy masses"? I don't believe for a second that a well organized boycott would not get Amazon's attention and action on a given issue. The problem is that a boycott is much harder to implement than getting someone to vote on issue X.
"If you rent a server from Amazon, you have no rights" is a silly statement. It is a privilege to do business with Amazon and either party has the ability to severe that. You do not have a right to use a server that Amazon provides.

Rights are not granted by anything. They describe the extent of government power. That is all.
All this from the guy who eats something he picked from his foot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ at 1':52" into the video.
The legal definition of "performance" means that the song (or a portion thereof) was played in a public setting. Given the number of hits the video received, this performance was, unambiguously, public.
We live in a world of either severe inconvenience or reluctant acceptance of the mega-corp.

But I don't understand apologists and defenders like yourself.
Mountain, meet molehill.
UPS and robots do shipping now. That article he cited is old.
I got the full text. Here is a Dropbox link to it: http://bit.ly/PumkzJ
This is genius, how come no one thought of this before, it is cheap, provides more safety for bicyclers and freaking looks like tron bikes!
This guy deserves to make money.
From what I can tell, Jo's work is based on how low socio-economic-status (poor black / latino) students have trouble in standardized exams when there are questions like:

"A cable crew had 120 feet of cable left on a 1000-foot spool after wiring 4 identical new homes. If the spool was full before the homes were wired, which equation could be used to find the length of cable (x) used in each home?".
I'm sure there's a helluva lot more opinions than those two among the readers of Hacker News. The best communities are diverse.
Not a lot (maybe 15%?) and no. More than half of signups come from either untraceable referrers/direct or searching for Freckle specifically. We rely on content marketing + word of mouth.
lol.

There are plenty of business that are run by individuals. And there are plenty of not-quite-really-businesses that have plenty of employees. See: Zynga
I don't know what kind of a 'citation' you're looking for. It's possible to write language like that into a license for use; whether or not that's enforceable is a function of several variables, such as how the license is written, which jurisdiction we're talking about, and which legal authority happens to comment on it. Say I provide some lawyer or judge who confirms this, and you find another who disagrees. There's no conflict there; my whole point is that this is a matter of legal opinion, and therefore a possibility.

Contrast to sale of a physical good, where the first-sale doctrine means that such restrictions on subsequent sale and use can't exist. (The implication is that the same would apply to DRM-free media, because a lack of DRM means that they can't enforce any such restrictions, either through practical means or through legal channels).
I use a Kobo and it supports more formats, open formats, plus DRM formats. They've been out for a couple years and are more popular in Canada than the Kindle from what I've been told. Only issue I've ever come across is that the response time of the touch screen seems to be a little slower after some firmware updates. They quickly make changes though to resolve those problems.
Startup vs. Big Company Mindset
Many third-world countries already have this—usually fleets of young men on motorcycles that will deliver whatever you need.
Amplification & the changing role of media
That's not right at all. If you write a game in C++/OpenGL you can share >95% code across Win7, OSX, Linux, Android, and iOS. Even if you use DirectX it's not hard to write an OpenGL wrapper.

More impressively if you use C# you can release cross platform using mono.
From the perspective of the recording industry, there is absolutely no ambiguity here. Whether you're synchronizing live or after the fact doesn't change the fact that you're synchronizing, and that right to do that is reserved by publishers. Selling that right is what they do for a living.

I'm not saying this is right or wrong, smart or dumb. I'm just telling you that this is how they system actually works.
I just updated it to use Foundation, so now it's redesigned & fully responsive.
This is crazy. So crazy and ambitious. Running a full software stack on a very limited syscall set? You're basically re-defining an OS abstraction, much more so than Firefox OS or Chrome OS. It's the logical continuation of android and ios, at the browser level. So now your browser/OS is only comprised of $(curl | exec -) ?

But there are so many problems to solve. Skimming through the paper shows OP has thought of more problems than me, but there are so many more to solve(yet unforeseen) before this could become even a bit usable. But if you succeed, Microsoft should be worried (and kill your project).
As an advocate of attachment parenting I will suggest that having your kids with you too much is better than outsourcing their care to daycare too much.

That first year of life in particular has a profound effect on their development that lasts a lifetime. Their sense of connection, security, empowerment, cause and effect, and regulating emotions are practically hard-wired during those first twelve months. Look no further than the myriad issues that arise in adopted orphans who missed as little as only the first year of nurturing for confirmation of this.

If it comes down to choices, your children need your time more than they need that infinity pool with a view.
QConSF 2012, a DevOps field guide
Workday IPO Shows What Matters: Market Size, Profitability And, Yes, Pricing
It appears that 256 classes can override an ID.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4388649
You are right about Symbian losing, but it is definitely a smartphone in the true sense of the word.

From a user's perspective, the poor UX of the OS and apps is what dragged it down. From a technical perspective it had huge technical debt, which led to enormous development time and bugs.
No link left behind
In case anyone wonders, I recently looked into how locales work with respect to LANG, LC_ALL and LC_*:
http://c.i3wm.org/6799926

By the way, by looking at http://www.lemis.com/grog/index.php you can see that the author uses FreeBSD, just in case you were wondering about /usr/src
This is true, Amazon is moving toward more automated shipping. It will lower prices and improve conditions for workers that remain. One evil cured, eh?

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/19/amazon-acquires-online-fulf...
Looks less like the "thinking of many business type people" and more like the thinking of teenagers with stunted maturity levels. I doubt there's a 'business type' among them.
Don't be ridiculous. The kid is dancing TO the music.
well, just download reddit code, and change the template; and voila: clone ready
> Lo and behold, my new job is filled with programmers with 5-10 years experience of pure coding and they all use the most modern aspects of C++ (C++11, template, lambda, etc, etc).

Those are noobs. Look e.g. at V8 to see real, advanced C++ code: http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/browse/trunk/src/
I've used Backbone extensively before. It was actually the other way around where I didn't need 90% of what backbone did for what I was doing and just switched back to jQuery.

For situations where I actually do want some kind of client-to-server data-binding, I generally prefer it to provide two-way view<->model binding so I've been leaning towards Angular (as heavy as it is) and Knockout.
I don't get your point, can external authorities not protect your rights? What is the course of action that you are getting at?
Editing ls/print.c sourcecode and recompiling is not hacking in my definition.

I usually consider the portability of the solution. I have linux i386 and x64 machines, my arm n900, an osx latop, etc.

Recompiling ls (or, heavens forbid, cross compiling!) for each machine may be a bright idea.

Adding a line to your profile that will take advantage of the existing tools like sed is closer to hacking in my definition, because it tries to think about the bigger problem - but still I wouldn't dare calling the following "hacking":

echo "alias lll=\"ls -l | sed -e :a -e 's/\(.*[0-9]\)\([0-9]\{3\}\)/\1,\2/;ta'\"">> ~/.bashrc
Show HN: Coldcrate, large short-term burst storage using the Dropbox API
That argument - if it held any water - would obviate the need to license any music used for any soundtrack added to any video.
Skywalker.  A purple vim colorscheme
I enable this for GNU ls like:

alias ls="BLOCK_SIZE=\'1 ls --color=auto"

The above is a bit hacky and not very UNIXy as it's
lumping more logic into ls, rather than splitting out
into functional units.

Number formatting being a very
common requirement, I've proposed a design for a new
numfmt GNU coreutil

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-02/msg00085...

which would be used like:

ls -l | numfmt --field=5 --format=%'d
On the other hand, you could consider it a cautionary tale about not reinventing wheels, because a problem that may seem trivial at first often turns out to be far more complex than expected.

This is why you try to re-use work when possible, rather than endlessly reinventing things, because while sure, adding a comma to the printf string is easy enough, your assumptions (English locale, compiler not trying to be clever) are going to quickly become visible as things fall apart because your assumptions aren't in line with the system's assumptions.

What this story really demonstrates is that without a clear understanding of how a system is designed and the basic assumptions it makes, just "hacking on the code" is just as likely to break things as it is to fix them.
Symisc systems released the version 2.x of their open source embedded PHP engine
I think it might be based off a fair amount more than that, she's been publishing since 1993.
I did my own test:
http://silev.org/test/Retina-resize.html
Did you try contacting some of these people and just asking them why they liked the ad? The botnet hypothesis is just that. As is the sleazy fraud theory.
These systems look neat, but I find them inelegant in that they're only visible from the sides, so they're more of a supplement to front and rear lights than a complete solution.
Yes, because it's interesting, and because for the OP in particular they've spent a little bit of effort up front to save themselves time in the long run, and learn something too.
I was going to make a version of Ted Nelson's Zigzag for the Symbian platform (circa 2002). It never worked out. I worried recently that I didn't catch the wave (eg, Symbian), but now I know that the iPhone changed distribution, and actually the time is ripe for Zigzag to take off on mobile phones.
I dunno, depends who you outsource to.

I found a great Objective-C programmer in Pakistan who did ~100 hours @ $15/hour.
Agreed that this may be news for lots of programmers, but I think you're overstating their advantage. I once took a serious marketing course in a business school, and the idea of A/B testing is very old. Any professional marketer knows about it, and is currently being done by people that don't know anything about coding (by asking programmers to code it for them).
That could be a negative since you removed a bunch of jobs. Also working in 100 degree warehouse isn't that bad, i spent many summers working on a farm in a lot worse conditions(heat, sun and ankle deep in pig manure). Using the same logic we should stop eating.
When I use your sed transformation on one of my directories, I see entries like:

drwxr-xr-x 1,653 dalke admin 56,202 Mar 5 2,012 pubchem
-rw-r--r-- 1 dalke staff 59,252 Nov 16 2,011 pubchem_10,000.fps.0.9.cluster

I don't want to see the year written "2,012", and the file name is 'pubchem_10000" not "pubchem_10,000".
Programmer: "Programmers think that X is Y because X is Y."
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nice movie
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/09/get-the-gringo-2012-dvdri...
Please explain why that's at all remotely relevant to the issue of Amazon's DRM vs. DRM-free ebooks, and not just an excuse to start yet another HN GPL vs. BSD flamewar.
First impression, that's seems like a lot (depending on what the wishy washy description really means). Second, that's a lot of bs-alarms going off when reading the description; there's not only a lot of buzzwords and non-specifics, but there's also a lack of mention of important things (scalability, etc).

You're waving costs for me? What, are you going to tell me that if I email back within the next 3 minutes that I'll get two reddit sites for the price of one!?

This seems like someone who isn't sure the value or complexity of what he's asking for and has more of just an idea of what would work well functionally. I would say they, at the very least, needs a consultation with someone who understands how to elicit functionality requirements and turn that into a technical architecture/infrastructure discussion.
Reddit is open-source (https://github.com/reddit/reddit) so yeah, I'll clone it for $4k.
As a non-gamer, I'm flabbergasted by the offhand way in which so many gamers make lighthearted rape references and sexually denigrating comments. And not just the title of the thread. I guess I'm old now.
Well, it still adds to the qualifications well paying organizations demand for when recruiting new minds.
What about reasons not to listen to Stallman? There are other ethical views than just his.

In addition to being practical, it's morally good for individual programmers to work on commercial products solely for their own long-term gain, and that doing so doesn't come at the expense of others. Others are free to buy those products if they wish. The fact that so many people choose to do so is evidence of the tremendous value that paid developers and companies provide.
Student Upstarts has backed 3 outstanding teams since starting 6 months ago. @jakenfelds and I are looking for 97 more in the next 3 years or sooner.

Find out what we've done and what we'll do at the meetup on 23rd Oct.
Thanks so much for this encouraging post.
The value of those tips is unfortunately ephemeral, since we're improving in PyPy in a lot of places. I'll try to put it up in the form of blog post, to have a point of reference. No definite deadline yet though :)
Show HN: Python Mongo Fluent Query Builder
http://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/flux-usenix06.pdf
I wrote NLTK is lame. I don't think I used that exact language, I think I just said I don't think it's useful.

I have been doing NLP for a decade and don't see the use in NLTK. Most NLP practitioners with whom I have spoken seem to agree.
Right on money.

And it's nothing new: this kind of freebie-chasing is flourishing since late 1990s at least.
I wonder why there aren't more science fiction stories about the past. For some reason, it's always assumed that science fiction is about the future. I say it's about the new and exciting science, but some of this new and exciting science (physics breakthrough, artificial intelligence, etc.) just might have happened today or in the recent past, and we might not be able to notice it yet (or it have backfired back then and will only come to fruition later). Given that recent past is the time all of us have lived in, and some have nostalgic feelings for, it looks like such an oversight to me. In sci-fi games, I can only see 0x10 and Darwinia do this to a degree.
I find this interesting and really useful too!
> Walk around with a pen and a scrap of paper.

From http://www.diyplanner.com/docs/commonplace1:

"In Sir Arthur Conon Doyle's tales, Sherlock Holmes kept a large and sprawling commonplace book upon his shelves, essentially his own home-grown encyclopedia of people, places, crimes, and pertinent facts, like the colour of mud from various locations, or the consistency of tobacco ashes. In the middle of a case, Holmes would rush to his commonplace, haul down a book, and read out a newspaper article concerning (say) the disappearance of a hydraulics engineer a year prior. His attic of a brain remembered vague references, but the books held the details that allowed him to pursue his work."
Also you're clearly eliminating the skeptics, which is a good way to screen those with actual buying potential aka suckers ;)
It appears to have been in the semi-public view for quite a long time. Was there ever any action taken?

Other related info:

http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=715422

http://www.nychold.com/rev-bishop-0302.html

In 2006 Milgram claimed that I had engaged in scientific misconduct.
Milgram and Bishop attempted aggressively to identify my research subjects

That's unacceptable. If either of those are true they should be stripped of their titles and degrees.
A better feature would be to add an 'opt out' function for junk mail.
This looks like a great start! I do a lot of electronics design. I've used ORCad, PADS, Altium, EAGLE, DIPtrace, and so on and have never really found a package I really love. I currently use EAGLE for capture and PCB design, and do simulations in a PSPICE package outside of Eagle. This is a crappy solution, but it's the best cost/performance/simplicity tradeoff I've been able to come up with.

What type of Library features are you expecting? That's a major pain point with Eagle (Libraries are crap). If you're able to nail-down the collaboration, libraries, and version control features I'd certainly be up for switching our team over.

Would love to provide further input if you guys are interested. Shoot me an email if so: stephen at stephenlake.ca
Is it really unethical to buy a DRMed ebook? Seems to me I only hurt myself with it - unless you count the bigger picture that I am contributing to a future where everything is DRMed. But I think the latter might be overblown. Even if people buy DRMed books, free books still exist.

Not sure about the sweatshop story, but at least with ebooks the workers have to sweat only once, when they ship the kindle.
That's a poor and incorrect assumption of what I'm arguing. Do you always counter someone's question with an assumption of what they're going to say? I hate people that do that with a fiery passion, particularly when bucketed into a group that I'm not even representing.

My point is, you say "when [you] buy something, [you] want to know it's yours", the corollary being that you dislike software licenses entirely. Any software with a license is DRM-protected, including GPL and BSD software or software with a EULA. The operating system that you are currently using is licensed to you. There's probably nothing on your computer that you own aside from things you have created yourself.

You have purchased or downloaded the software, yes, but the author has licensed it to you under specific terms. It is not yours. That is DRM. Anybody who hates DRM and continues to enforce a software license on their work, GPL or not, is experiencing cognitive dissonance (Richard Stallman included). GPL is actually one of the worst of the bunch because it mandates how you can redistribute things you build with "what is yours".

Is this an ideal world? No. Is it the world we live in right now? Yes. I will not assume what your response will be, to your respect.
>For some reason, it's always assumed that science fiction is about the future.

Isn't steampunk essentially science fiction that's set in the past, near the industrial revolution?
I think the people with the most interest in keeping AMD alive would be Intel's big customers who are not resellers. I'm thinking of people like Amazon, Google and Facebook.
This is not a typical rate in Belarus. A competent Java developer would net you €25 or so.